• "Non giudicare sbagliato ciò che non conosci, prendi l'occasione per comprendere!"
• "Do not judge wrong what you don't know, take the opportunity to understand"!
• "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls".
• "Lo scopo dell'arte è lavare via la polvere della vita quotidiana dalle nostre anime".
• "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen".
• "Dipingere è il mestiere del cieco. Non dipinge ciò che vede, ma ciò che sente, ciò che si racconta di ciò che ha visto".
• "The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
• "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions".
• "Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar".
• "Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima".
• "He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law".
• "Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not".
• "Love is the greatest refreshment in life".
• "L'amore è il più grande ristoro della vita".
• "To draw you must close your eyes and sing".
• "It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction".
• "The hidden harmony is better than the obvious".
• "We don't grow older, we grow riper".
• "You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer".
• "Non devi sempre credere a quello che dico. Le domande ti inducono a dire bugie, soprattutto quando non c'è risposta".
• "There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats".
• "It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction".
• "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense".
• "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso".
• "To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved".
• "Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not".